WELLINGTON community choir leader Caroline Rigby and husband Brian Johnson, both from the Blackdown Hills, are heading to the Glastonbury Festival with WaterAid this weekend to rally support for the charity’s

#ToiletsSaveLives campaign that calls on world leaders to reach everyone, everywhere with taps and toilets.

Caroline leads the popular Blackdown Community Choir in Wellington and has supported WaterAid for over ten years, through her work leading Somerset community choirs and raising funds through the Sing for Water project – which nationally has raised thousands of pounds through song workshops, choirs and events.

Her husband Brian was at the second Glastonbury Festival in 1971 and even helped to build part of the first Pyramid Stage. They will now be working at the recycling and bars team alongside an army of 470 dedicated WaterAid volunteers making a splash at Worthy Farm this year.

They said: “We’re really proud to have been selected to represent WaterAid at Glastonbury. We’re going to be working at the Park Stage bars helping with the new re-usable cups scheme. The aim is to provide a sustainable and collectable alternative to cardboard cups and helping to reduce the amount of litter on the site.”

“Access to safe water and improved sanitation really can transform lives. The festival provides a great opportunity to get fellow festival-goers thinking about the realities of life without safe water and toilets and to help engage thousands of people in a cause we feel passionately about.”

Last year, world leaders made the first ever commitment to reach everyone everywhere with clean water and safe toilets: Global Goal 6. Aside from working on the recycling and bars team, Caroline and Brian and their fellow WaterAid volunteers are hoping to gather more than 40,000 signatures at the Glastonbury Festival for WaterAid’s #ToiletsSaveLives petition, which calls on David Cameron to explain how he plans to turn the promise of Goal 6 into a reality. The charity wants the UK government to provide a clear plan, backed with money to make it happen.

For more information and to contribute to WaterAid’s #ToiletsSaveLives campaign visit www.wateraid.org/uk/

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